I WONDER WHY – AT 10:36 A.M. ET:  An important Democratic group has decided to sit out the 2014 midterm campaign.  Hmm.  From Buzzfeed:   

The Democratic Party’s biggest super PAC, recently retooled as an early pro-Hillary Clinton effort, will sit out the midterm elections this year.

A spokesman with the group, Priorities USA Action, confirmed to BuzzFeed on Wednesday night that it would not be involved in House or Senate campaigns.

“House Majority PAC and Majority PAC are doing everything right and making a real difference. We fully support their efforts,” said the spokesman, Peter Kauffmann, referring to the main groups supporting Democratic congressional candidates.

Priorities USA, which operates under loose campaign finance rules that allow it to raise and spend unlimited sums, put $65 million behind Barack Obama in 2012.

Sources close to the group say its leaders considered helping Democrats in House and Senate races approaching this fall. The PAC’s principal financial backer, Hollywood magnate Jeffrey Katzenberg, has shown an interest in one midterm candidate in particular: Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat gunning to unseat Sen. Mitch McConnell. Katzenberg, one of Obama’s biggest bundlers, raised more than $1 million for Grimes on her first trip to California last year.

COMMENT:  I just wonder if there's something more here.  The bandwagon effect is strong in American politics, and I'd love to know why this influential group is staying off the bandwagon.  Maybe they feel it's not going anywhere, that the House is out of reach for Dems and that the Senate has a good chance of being lost.  Most encouraging theory I've heard in a long time.   But just a theory for now.

February 6, 2014